Removing date stamps from posts

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  arcanafm · Member · Jan 27, 2015 at 4:00 pm

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  Hi,

  I’m trying to remove date stamps from new posts and not yet succeeding. I’m using the 2011 theme and have Premium. I believe I need to use CSS but I don’t think I’ve put the code in the right place yet!

  Could you help me please? Thanks in advance.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jan 27, 2015 at 7:32 pm

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  Hi, I’m not seeing any posts on your site, but working off of the Twenty Eleven demo site, I came up with this which removes the date, but keeps the author.

  .entry-meta .sep, .entry-meta .entry-date {
      display: none;
  }
  .entry-meta .author:before {
      content: "By ";
  }

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  arcanafm · Member · Jan 28, 2015 at 11:30 am

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  Thanks, that’s really helpful. I’ve done a few posts but they’re private at the moment, ahead of the first day of the site on Sunday.

  Is there somewhere exact I need to put this code, or do I drop it in the Customize CSS part of the blog?

  Thanks in advance!
  Ben

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  bernhardreiter · Staff · Jan 28, 2015 at 5:09 pm

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  Yes, just drop that code into the Customize CSS section!

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  arcanafm · Member · Jan 29, 2015 at 10:48 am

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  Hi, sorry to be a pain – I did that but the dates are still showing. Could you let me know exactly where I need to put that code, or if there is anything I’m not doing? I’ve published the second post on the site.
  I’m not that great with code so as many steps as possible would be welcome! Thanks.
  Ben

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  bernhardreiter · Staff · Jan 29, 2015 at 10:22 pm

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  Hello,

  it does seem to work for me already — I loaded arcana.fm in both Firefox and Chromium, and the dates weren’t visible in either (I’m attaching a screenshot of Firefox displaying the site). Have you tried to clear your cache, and reload? CSS settings are sometimes cached, so that might be a possible reason why your browser was showing the previous state.

  Regards

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  arcanafm · Member · Feb 1, 2015 at 11:48 am

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  Thanks – you’re absolutely right! I think what I was trying to get to as well is removing the date from the html address itself, so that the opening article reads

  http://arcana.fm/welcome-to-team-arcana/

  instead of

  http://arcana.fm/2015/01/29/welcome-to-team-arcana/

  Would you know how I could do that please? Thanks for the help so far!

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  staff-happychia · Staff · Feb 2, 2015 at 7:50 am

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  @arcanafm,

  The date part in the url ( also known as permalink) is not changeable on WordPress.com.

  We can only modify the slug (the text after date part), as explained in the Post Title and Permalink URL section of the New Post Screen support document.

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  ryancowles · Staff · Feb 6, 2015 at 3:35 am

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  Hi arcanafm! As chaitanyamsv mentioned, you cannot change the Permalink structure on WordPress.com.

  Is there anything else that we can help with, or are you all set?